Francis Galton pioneered scientific advances in many fields – but also founded the racist pseudoscience of eugenics
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par Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to improve the species. Put into practice, Galton's concept proved discriminatory, damaging, even deadly.
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vendredi 15 janvier 2021
